Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1901 — State Items of Interest. [ARTICLE]

State Items of Interest.

Columbus postolflce is getting new fixtures. Ruth Wilson, 3, East Columbus, died from burns. Vigo County Commissioners may buy voting machines. Rev. Father Hegger, Richmond, diet! in a Cincinnati hospital. At a Richmond gambling house raid, ten poker players were arrested. Robert Smith and wife, Richmond, celebrated their golden wedding. Muncie snappers compromised with window glass managers, and the strike is off. Hiram Amos, charged with stealing a revolver, cut his way out of the Seottsburg jail. Ross Coojper. Maxwell, lost an arm by the accidental discharge of a muzzleloading gun. A new trial will be asked in the John Diehl murder case. New Castle. Diehl was convicted of procuring the death of Mary Farwig at Muncie. Washington Cook of Warren has been declared of unsQtmd mind and, will be committed to Longcliff asylum. Cook is 2t» years old and sgjoked from twenty to forty cigarettes a day. The saloon known as the Blue Goose, at Burlington, was attacked by protesting citizens, who, with stones and brick bats, demolished all the windows of the place, smashed in the doors, nnd, taking the kegs of liquor into the street, poured the contents into the gutters. Mrs. Frank \V bite of Keystone and Janies Woods, an oil operator, eloped. As they left the woman’s house a daughter was awakened and rushed to hei mother. Wood* grabbed the child and whipped it until it fell insensible. The deserted husband is almost crazed. Alice and Martha Grogan, daughters of Alex. Gregan of Marietta, became violently insane through some mysterious means which the doctors suspect tfi have been a dose of belladonna. The girls wanted to attend a European academy of music, which their parents felt unubie to grant. Frank 8. Jones, attorney for tlie defendants, announce* that all the cases begun in the Federal Court by Mrs. Lulu C. Jenkins against Ripley County citizens for damages for the death of her husband'by lynching nt Versailles linve beCu compromised, nnd the cases have been dismissed by the plaintiff. By the terms of the compromise tho defendants will pay Mrs. Jenkins $4,000 iu satisfaction of all elulms. Miss Bertha Culbertson, aged 21, a school teacher, tilled herself at Olenwood with -n revolver. She shot herself through the heart and died instantly. She lmd received the attentions pf Charles May, n prosperous young mad of Fayetteville. He left for Giendive, Mont., for permanent resilience, and his relations with Miss Culbertson were severed for good. She brooded over the separation. , Tho jury in the trial nt Winchester, wherein Patrolman Cyrus Waite of Un-w ion City was accused of murder for killing Fred Hardwick, whom he shot while resisting arrest, has returned a verdict of justifiable homicide. Joseph Douglass of Crawfordsville shot and fatally wounded Frank Parrish nnd Charles Doyle, who had called nt his house to see. his wife. The men went to the rear door, and failing to get n response, kicked it opeu. Douglas* confronted - them with a shotgun, tearing Pajrrish’s face off and pouriug a second *hot Into Doyle’* back.